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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_September_29


September 29

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Video games based on Guardians of the Galaxy

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Nominator's rationale: Only contains two articles. Would also need to merge into Category:Guardians of the Galaxy. (Oinkers42) (talk) 16:57, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Video games based on Thor (Marvel Comics)

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Nominator's rationale: Only contains two entries. Would probably also need to merge into Category:Thor (Marvel Comics) in other media and other appropriate subcategories as well. (Oinkers42) (talk) 16:55, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

North German Confederation

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Nominator's rationale: rename and purge, this was a short period after the German Confederation was abolished and the German Empire did not exist yet. In these years there was a North German Confederation led by Prussia, of which Baden and Bavaria were not a member (so they should be purged). If renamed, these categories can also conveniently be added to the tree of Category:North German Confederation. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:25, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Aviation accidents and incidents caused by navigation system failure

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Nominator's rationale: No need to distinguish by which instrument failed Mason (talk) 15:41, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Airliner bombings by country

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge. This category isn't helpful for navigation with only two countries in it Mason (talk) 15:40, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Reinforcement technology

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Nominator's rationale: Vague category that doesn't help navigation. Nor is in limited to the parent category of Reinforced concrete Mason (talk) 15:37, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Satellite meteorology in Europe

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Nominator's rationale: Only page isn't about Satellite meteorology in Europe. It's a method that's not exclusive to Europe Mason (talk) 15:34, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Health services research

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge. There's no parent Health services, so I see not benefit to isolating this content Mason (talk) 15:31, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Door surrounds

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Nominator's rationale: Dual upmerge this underpopulated category Mason (talk) 15:22, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Barbuda Highlands

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Nominator's rationale: Dual merge. There are only two pages in this category, which isn't helpful for navigation. Mason (talk) 15:19, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Antigua and Barbuda defence and national security law

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge this underpopulated category that at present isn't helpful for navigation. Mason (talk) 15:09, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Antiguan and Barbudan spacewomen

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Nominator's rationale: Duel upmerge. There's no need to diffuse space tourists by the 2x intersection of nationality and gender Mason (talk) 15:01, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:British Asian actors

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Nominator's rationale: Delete. The practically same category was deleted un British actors of Asian descent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_April_20#Category:British_people_by_ethnicity_and_occupation Pinging @LaundryPizza03: from last discussion. Mason (talk) 14:21, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Collaborators during World War II occupations

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Nominator's rationale: This name is *really* confusing. I suggest changing it from occupation to (people) to make it clearer that this is about individuals. I'm very open to alternatives. Mason (talk) 13:58, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Student history societies

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Nominator's rationale: Category contains a single article and is unhelpful for navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 13:21, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support in principle but merge also to Student subject associations. Mason (talk) 14:05, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Mortgage industry of Spain

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Nominator's rationale: Contains only a single article which is actually about a housing rights organisation. AusLondonder (talk) 13:18, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. now that I've added the single article to a Mortgage related category. Mason (talk) 14:05, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:AAGPBL teams

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Nominator's rationale: Only two articles and one category in each. Already covered by other categories so no need to merge. Omnis Scientia (talk) 13:17, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sexual assaults in Germany

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Nominator's rationale: Contains only one article, unhelpful for navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 13:14, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Also the category tree Sexual assault is overlapping. Mason (talk) 14:00, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:British swimming sports executives

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Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary sub-category, contains two articles while parent contains none. We already have Category:Presidents of World Aquatics. AusLondonder (talk) 12:53, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support now that both have been added to British sports executives and administrators. Mason (talk) 14:06, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Diseases and disorders

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Nominator's rationale: This was moved to the current name via a 2008 decision with very little discussion. However, the main article is disease, not diseases and disorders. This makes the category not match the article. I believe it should be moved back to the broader "Disease" to match the main article, which does not only include individual diseases but also the entire topic of disease. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 12:29, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. This category tree is suppose to include chronic disorders, not just diseases. Mason (talk) 14:01, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Mason: The article disease states that a disorder is a form of disease. Disorder (medicine) is not an article. That means the current title is redundant. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 15:05, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Student debating societies in the United Kingdom

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Nominator's rationale: Category containing two redirects, unnecessary sub-categorisation by country, can easily be accommodated in the parent category. AusLondonder (talk) 12:21, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support in theory, but it should also be merged to Student culture in the United Kingdom Mason (talk) 14:02, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Star Wars puppets

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Nominator's rationale: This is referring to characters, not the puppets themselves. While these characters may once have been depicted as a puppet, that is certainly not true for all of their appearances. Jabba and Yoda were depicted as CGI at times. Ackbar is more of a human actor in costume than a puppet. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 10:36, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom, given that none of th pages are specifically about puppets. Mason (talk) 14:04, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Taxation in Texas

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Nominator's rationale: only page in here isn't unique to texas Mason (talk) 05:28, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Guqin educators

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. There's only one page in here, and its an internet directory of educators, not any bios of specific educators. Mason (talk) 02:26, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Defunct airlines of Grenada

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Nominator's rationale: Category containing a single article which is List of defunct airlines of Grenada. Unhelpful for navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 02:12, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Why not merge it to Defunct airlines of the Caribbean, Defunct airlines by country, and Airlines of Grenada? Please consider what happens to the contents of the category when you recommend delete. Mason (talk) 02:29, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Because the first two are container categories and the third is a category with no articles and which this list is unsuitable for. I also think the list article is already appropriately categorised. AusLondonder (talk) 02:50, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Diplomatic missions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Nominator's rationale: Unhelpful for navigation as contains no actual diplomatic missions and only one article, the List of diplomatic missions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. AusLondonder (talk) 02:06, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:British businesspeople in the natural gas industry

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Nominator's rationale: Contains only a single article which is about the chief executive of an energy supplier. AusLondonder (talk) 14:35, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on Marcocapelle's comment?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 01:53, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support merge to both. Mason (talk) 02:29, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Finishing (construction)

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Nominator's rationale: Useless category containing a single article. AusLondonder (talk) 13:52, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on Marcocapelle's comment?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 01:53, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support in theory, but adding to the parent is probably a good idea. Mason (talk) 14:07, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Religion in the Middle East

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Nominator's rationale: West Asia and the Middle East largely overlap, so we do not need both category trees. It is better to keep West Asia because it is consistent with other subcategories in Category:Religion in Asia by region. Sakakami (talk) 18:56, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge or reverse merge per nom and rename dependent on the merge direction. There is also this discussion which is still open. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:05, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strongly oppose - The reason these categories "largely overlap" is entirely because the regions themselves "largely overlap". An incovenient fact, perhaps, but a reality that Wikipedia is bound to respect - and that our categories must reflect. (There are many other overlapping category trees that we maintain simply because they reflect aspects of the real world.) Furthermore, the term "Middle East" is well-known to the great majority of readers, who are unlikely to be familiar with the term "West Asia". Anomalous+0 (talk) 07:56, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on Anomalous+0's comment?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 20:20, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on Marcocapelle's response to the objection?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 01:50, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Party lists

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Nominator's rationale: Party lists are also lists of candidates. The distinction between the two categories isn't apparent and thus makes it harder to find similar lists in other countries. Dajasj (talk) 05:58, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Your latest changes made it so that Category:Party lists in South African general elections is not part of Category:Lists of political candidates by nationality, which I believe it should be because it is a list of candidates. Dajasj (talk) 06:17, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: For those favoring a merge, do you agree with the updated Category:Electoral lists target? There is no clear consensus on whether a merge should happen, so a relist is also to allow for participation to determine if there is consensus for any merge.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 23:51, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: See previous relist comment.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 01:47, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Spanish anarcho-syndicalists

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Nominator's rationale: Redundant categorisation as most Spanish anarcho-syndicalists were members of the CNT and the few left over aren't meaningfully distinct from other categories of Spanish anarchists. Grnrchst (talk) 16:47, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support, this category just adds clutter AnarchistHistory (talk) 17:24, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Also dual merge?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 16:52, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Same question: Also dual merge?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 01:44, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Constituencies of the National Assembly of Botswana (historic)

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Nominator's rationale: Consistency with parent Category:Former constituencies. The "defunct" category duplicates the content. – Fayenatic London 13:36, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Aficionado538 (talk) 14:26, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: I will add the subcategories to this nomination.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 00:51, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have no opinion on whether this is a good idea or not. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 00:54, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Southend-on-Sea (district)

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Nominator's rationale: As per discussion at AFD for County Borough of Southend-on-Sea, the boundaries for the city and district are the same. Eastbourne is good example of this which has one category for the whole town and district.Davidstewartharvey (talk) 06:15, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Eastbourne is not the same as it is completely unparished unlike Southend (and as noted below the district article was kept). Southend actually has 3 potential definitions that we could use namely the smallest being the part of the district which has "Southend-on-Sea" as the post town, the next smallest being the unparished area which roughly covers both Southend and Westcliff-on-Sea post towns namely excluding Leigh-on-Sea parish and the largest being the whole district. There is also Southend Urban Area but in 2021 the was urban areas/BUAs seems to have changed so it may not still exist. That said I'm not sure maintaining separate categories for the settlement/unparished area and district is helpful as categories are generally less granular than articles so it may well be better to just merge all into 1 category covering all definitions. Crouch, Swale (talk) 17:45, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    But the parished area (leigh) falls within the wider Southend UA border. If anything Leigh should have its own category? Davidstewartharvey (talk) 10:50, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes Leigh probably should have its own category namely for the area covered by the parish. We have other parishes with categories, see Category:Civil parishes in Essex. All the other articles that are in the unparished area could go in the categories for the settlement. Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:05, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. The latter category is for the traditional town of Southend-on-Sea, not the wider district. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:23, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    In the case of somewhere like Colchester, where the boundaries of the district are outside the city boundaries I can understand having separate categories (Colchester (town) and Boroughof Colchester), but Southend District and city boundaries are the same. Davidstewartharvey (talk) 10:57, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 00:48, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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